View the full results of the 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ-Pacific 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ Rankings 2017

This is Times Higher Education¡¯s first 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ-Pacific 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ Ranking. So why now?

Well, as Simon Marginson, director of the Centre for Global Higher Education at the UCL Institute of Education, points out in our opening analysis, the region is already larger than Europe and the UK in terms of student numbers and research spending. ¡°And one day it will become as important as the US and Canada,¡± he predicts.

Quite simply: ¡°The 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ-Pacific region is the most dynamic in the higher education world,¡± Marginson declares.

While THE¡¯s annual World 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ Rankings and its 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ Rankings combine to give us clear insights into the region, we believe that it is time for a sharper focus on this unique and exciting part of the world.

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While the 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ Rankings cover the whole and exceptionally diverse continent of 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ, including Central and Southern 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ, as well as the Middle East, these rankings give a close-up of the countries of East and Southeast 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ, home to some of the world¡¯s strongest research nations. In recognition of rapidly growing higher education, research and business links with Australia and New Zealand, of course assisted by geographical proximity and shared time zones and the increasing two-way traffic of talent, we have included Oceania in the mix.

In total, 38 nations are included in the analysis, covering what the United Nations describes as East 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ, Southeast 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ and Oceania (and the World Bank groups into East 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ and the Pacific). Some 13 feature in the overall ranking of more than 200 institutions.

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This new ranking uses the same comprehensive and balanced range of 13 separate performance indicators as the overall World 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ Rankings ¨C and the data are drawn from the 2016-17 world rankings, published in September 2016. But the weightings of each indicator are adjusted in line with our 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ rankings ¨C giving a little less weight to reputation, to reflect the generally younger profile of East 51¹ú²úÊÓƵn institutions, and putting more weight on the ability of institutions to attract research income from industry, in recognition of the power of universities as economic drivers.

The result is a new picture of the strengths of and, more importantly, the opportunities afforded by what many see as one of the most important higher education and research regions in the world.

As Ian Jacobs, president and vice-chancellor of the Sydney-based 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of New South Wales, puts it: ¡°The tectonic plates of global higher education are shifting.¡± It seems that East and Southeast 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ, combined with the more traditional powers of Australia and New Zealand, are set to become the main beneficiaries.?

Countries represented in the 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ-Pacific 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ Rankings 2017

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